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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/2014 7:42 PM, Scott Dredge
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<div dir="ltr">Megaloads are opposed by many as you might have
seen here on the viz (Linwood Laughy, tribes) along with several
other comments criticizing those who are doing their jobs of
running Port Wilma. If you want specific links, I'll find them
in the archives for you.<br>
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I haven't seen any articles on anyone protesting nuclear waste
in Idaho except for this one from over 20 years ago:<br>
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href="http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911013&slug=1310794"
target="_blank">http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911013&slug=1310794</a><br>
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Since there has been, and likely will continue to be for quite some
time, nuclear waste in Idaho as a result of decisions made much
longer ago than twenty years, and since there has not been a
governor or legislature within Idaho inclined to listed to any
anti-nuclear protests for two decades, potential protesters have
understood that the likelihood of favorable results from protest
effort are unlikely.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It might be apples and oranges considering
megaloads is a somewhat local issue whereas nuclear waste is
yonder across the state.</div>
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Have you considered the possibilities of building a leaking nuclear
tank farm southwest of Idaho Falls that leaks its effluent into the
Snake River drainage? With all of those glow-in-the-dark goodies
co-mingled with the agricultural additives in the same northwesterly
flow stream, the local analytical chemists won't have to search very
far for exotic samples for lab exercises, will they?<br>
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If Moscow and Pullman were of a mind to ask the Federal Congress for
some financial assistance to build a shared pipeline and pumping
facilities to enhance the local aquifer with Snake River water, the
purification problem just got a whole lot more chemically
complicated and financially fearsome.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Of course the supposed 'ruining of the environment'
in and around that Alberta tar sands is even further away and in
a different country but that gets thrown in the mix due to the
local megaload issue.</div>
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Short-sighted nonsense. In the case of the Alberta tar sands, the
relevant "local environment" is Planet Earth. Global warming
includes the entire biosphere, including all the Moscows everywhere.<br>
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The fact of the matter is that the solar energy incident on the
state of Texas in one month exceeds the entire energy content of all
the petroleum products ever produced in that state. Solar energy
development producing electrical power for many uses should be being
more aggressively pursued, making fraking Alberta unnecessary.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's sort of like when a public defender throws
everything against the wall in hopes that one juror will see
something that sticks (sorry I couldn't resist).<br>
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This list generally dispenses with grammar grannies and apostrophe
police, and, apparently, inanity nannies, too.<br>
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Ken<br>
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